<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear QE community,<br><br></div>I wonder if there is a rule to choose acoustic sum rule. I set very tight convergence criterion for both pw.x (conv_thr = 1.0D-10) and ph.x(tr2_ph=1.0d-16). <br><br>When I applied asr="simple", the frequencies of the first 3 modes are not equal to zero, but a relatively small negative value. The low-frequency modes are affected, and there is no change in frequency number of high-frequency modes.<br># mode  [cm-1]   [THz]     IR<br>   1    -1.27  -0.0381   0.0000<br>   2    -1.02  -0.0306   0.0000<br>   3    -0.48  -0.0143   0.0000<br>   4    50.74   1.5212   0.0042<br>   5    66.71   1.9999   0.0031<br>   6    76.72   2.3000   0.1024<br>   7    91.30   2.7372   0.0605<br>   8    92.44   2.7712   0.2996<br>   9   102.29   3.0666   0.2928<br>  10   107.09   3.2105   0.0402<br>  11   113.55   3.4043   0.3288<br>  12   117.59   3.5252   0.5163<br>  13   133.35   3.9977   0.0394<br>  14   136.70   4.0981   0.2142<br>  15   144.03   4.3179   0.4547<br>  16   158.41   4.7490   0.0742<br><br><br>If I employed asr="zero-dim" , the frequencies of the first 6 modes all become 0. But I found the frequencies of all the modes, even high-frequency modes, were varied. <br><br># mode  [cm-1]   [THz]     IR<br>   1    -0.00  -0.0000   0.0000<br>   2    -0.00  -0.0000   0.0000<br>   3    -0.00  -0.0000   0.0000<br>   4    -0.00  -0.0000   0.0000<br>   5    -0.00  -0.0000   0.0000<br>   6     0.00   0.0000   0.0000<br>   7    40.75   1.2216   0.0265<br>   8    68.45   2.0520   0.1827<br>   9    82.84   2.4836   0.1281<br>  10    95.99   2.8778   0.2143<br>  11   108.98   3.2671   0.3284<br>  12   113.25   3.3951   0.4248<br>  13   117.89   3.5342   0.2717<br>  14   126.27   3.7854   0.0136<br>  15   136.33   4.0872   0.3745<br clear="all"><div><div><br></div><div>I am specially interested in the low-frequency region (1-4 THz). How could I select acoustic sum rule correctly?<br><br></div><div>Thank you very much in advance!<br><br></div><div>Best Regards,<br></div><div>Yin<br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><hr style="width:210px;min-height:1px" align="left" color="#b5c4df" size="1">
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